Tonight at 7:44pm PST, Mercury will Retrograde from Pisces into Aquarius. All three annual Mercury Retrogrades will be in Air Signs this year and next. It is one of the key indicators suggesting the rEvolutionary Awakening we are presently unfolding shifts now from the Waters of Heart into the Air of Intellect.

The transition from Yin energy of 2013 Black Water Snake (and 2012 Black Water Dragon) to Yang energy of 2014 Green Wooden Horse is reflected by Mercury's Dance. The 2012 and 2013 Mercury Retrogrades were all in Yin Water Signs. Now they shift into the Yang Air. This transition from Water to Air is further expressed in the 2014 Mercury Retrogrades which all begin in Water Signs, but complete in Air Signs. This Aquarius Retrograde began in Pisces, The Gemini Retrograde begins in Cancer, and the Libra Retrograde begins in Scorpio.

Though this current Mercury Retrograde began in Pisces, we call it the Aquarius Retrograde because, not only will it spend most of it's three-week course in Aquarius, but it will station direct in the Sign of the Water Bearer. Perhaps this is the perfect time to contemplate why the Water Bearer is an Air Sign. Isn't that a trip? Shamanic Astrology suggests we collectively carry the intellect of the Archetype that hosted Mercury's last retrograde cycle. This means we are currently in the final stages of the Scorpio mind that anchored when Mercury stationed direct on November 10th in that Sign of Scorpion, Snake, and Phoenix. We have 16 days more to dedicate our meditation to the depths of authentic feelings, passions, desires, and excitement.

Then the intellectual rEvolution begins in full! When Mercury stations direct just before Sunrise on February 28th, the last day of the Aquarius Moon Cycle, we will engage the Aquarian intellect until the next Retrograde Cycle completes in Gemini on July 1st. Out of the feelings of Water, into the intellect of Air. Should be a breeze, right? Think again. Get it?

The stretching of our emotional experience during the course of the last two years has been nothing short of overwhelming. Our hearts have been ecstatically stretched wide open. This has been a somewhat arduous process, but it has prepared the womb for the Sacred Feminine to return. She anchors now into the Body of our Earth and the Heart of our Water. Sheltered in our Strength, She invites Vulnerability. She is Protected so She can Embrace. She is Secure so She can Risk.

She calls now for the return of the Sacred Masculine. She will connect to His Spiritual Fire through the Air of Intellect just as watery wood will not catch flame without the stoke of breath. We have quieted our minds during this deep dive into the depths of our hearts. Now we are called to bring the lessons of our emotional expansion back to Mind... a new Mind.... a Global Mind.

This is not the Mind as it has been presented to us. This is more than Air. This is Prana, the energy that connects us always to All that Is. Prana is in the atmospheric air, yes, but it is also elsewhere, it is everywhere and it penetrates where the air alone cannot reach. Perhaps this coming Intellectual rEvolution will help us understand the Air of the Water Bearer is the aEther of the ancients.

This First Quarter week of the Moon Game is meant to bring tension to Aquarian intentions. This conflict welcomes expansion through resolution. It is the stretching of the rubber band that will release into the higher realms of Intellectual rEvolution. We are in the midst of a beautiful transformation. And this Awakening, this Quickening, this Shift now shifts into the highest Air.